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Burkina Faso's new junta leader says the military still hopes to hold a new election by 2024

One of Libya’s rival governments has signed preliminary economic and maritime deals with Turkey in a move that has inflamed tensions with the other administration

Just one day after Russian President Putin illegally declared the city of Lyman as an annexed Russian territory, Ukrainian forces retook the city in a major success for Ukraine.

Poland's foreign minister has signed an official note to Germany requesting some $1.3 trillion in reparations for the damage incurred by occupying Nazi Germans during World War II

Jair Bolsonaro considerably outperformed the polls in Brazil’s presidential election, proving that the far-right wave he rode to the presidency remains a force

The British government has dropped plans to cut income tax for top earners

The Ukrainians recent push with their offensive has embarrassed Moscow.

Kenya’s new president says the Cabinet has “effectively” lifted the country’s ban on openly cultivating genetically modified crops, reversing a decade-old decision as the East African country struggles with food security and a deadly drought

The Mexican government or army has alledgedly continued to use spyware designed to hack into the cellphones of activists, despite a pledge by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to end such practices

A tally compiled by The Associated Press shows that last week’s suicide bombing at a Kabul education center killed as many as 52 people, more than double the death toll acknowledged by Taliban officials

The European Union and Israel have held high-level talks for the first time in a decade

Police in Greece say a 41-year-old Tunisian man has been arrested for alleged disorderly behavior on a commercial flight that prompted the pilot to make an unscheduled landing in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki

The leaders of Hungary, Austria and Serbia have met in Budapest to find solutions on how to stem the increasing number of migrants arriving in Europe

Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces took back control of the key hub of Lyman in the Donbas region just one day after Russia annexed four occupied territories.

Officials and witnesses say at least 12 people are dead after extremist fighters targeted a local government headquarters in the capital of Somalia’s Hiran region, which has been the center of a recent mobilization against al-Shabab

Hurricane Orlene has made landfall on Mexico’s Pacific coast near the tourist town of Mazatlan

The United Nations humanitarian agency is warning that 5.7 million flood survivors in Pakistan will face a food crisis in the next three months

A trip by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to Singapore over the weekend to watch Formula One races has come under attack from critics who described it as “utterly callous” while thousands of Filipinos remain displaced due to a recent typhoon

Bosnia’s long-entrenched sectarian parties are poised to be the overall winners of the country’s general election despite symbolic successes by some opposition candidates who ran on a corruption-fighting agenda

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has responded publicly to the biggest protests in Iran in years, breaking weeks of silence to condemn the “rioting” and accuse the United States and Israel of planning the protests

Hurricane Orlene hits Mexican coast near resort city of Mazatlan

Sweden's navy says it has sent a vessel capable of “advanced diving missions” to the Baltic Sea area where ruptured undersea pipelines leaked natural gas for days

A spokesman for Poland’s communist-era government in the 1980s who masterminded state propaganda and censorship for a regime in the final years before its collapse has died

Master glassmakers and artistic locksmiths were selected across France to restore stained glass windows at Notre Dame Cathedral after the 2019 fire. The cathedral is scheduled to reopen in 2024.

There are about 5 million foreign-born residents in Italy.

A man has appeared in a court in the English city of Liverpool charged with the murder of a 9-year-old girl who was shot dead in her own home

Greece has promised to return to a budget surplus in 2023, submitting its first spending blueprint in 12 years that isn't under the direct scrutiny of European bailout lenders

The Russian military has acknowledged that Kyiv’s forces have broken through Moscow’s defenses in the Kherson region

Heavy rain in northern, northeastern and central Thailand has worsened severe flooding in many parts of the country, as authorities ordered the release of water into already overflowing rivers from dams that were filled to capacity

Clergy sexual abuse cases are casting a pall over the Catholic Church in Portugal

Russia's lower house of parliament endorses treaties for 4 regions of Ukraine to join Russia

A defense lawyer says a Pakistani court has accepted former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s apology in a contempt case stemming from his outburst against a female judge during a rally that was seen as a threat to the judiciary

Vladimir Putin’s military draft “changed everything” for the tens of thousands of Russians who have fled their country since the Russian leader’s mobilization was announced last month

Palestinian officials say the Israeli military has killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank

Iran's supreme leader, in 1st remarks on Iran protests, condemns rioting as 'unnatural,' 'planned' by non-Iranians

British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace says the Joint Expeditionary Force alliance of nations will meet Monday to discuss the safety of undersea pipelines and cables after blasts ruptured two natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea

Somali authorities say a top leader of the al-Shabab extremist group has been killed in a joint operation by the Somali National Army and international partner forces

Ukrainian troops have continued to push on with their offensive that has embarrassed Moscow, with Kyiv officials and foreign observers hinting at new gains in the southern strategic region of Kherson

Bulgaria's central election commission says the center-right GERB party of ex-premier Boyko Borissov appears to be the winner of the parliamentary election, with nearly 99% of the ballots counted

Spirits are soaring in India's “City of Joy” as tens of thousands of people jostle on Kolkata's streets in celebration of “Durga Puja,” the most important festival of the Bengali community. The five-day festival that began Saturday is marked by prayers to the Hindu goddess Durga, feasts, rejoicing, music, dance and drama marking the victory of good over evil. People visit richly illuminated and decorated community centers with idols of Durga and other goddesses worshipped by the Bengali community. This year's Durga Puja in West Bengal state in eastern India comes after two years of pandemic curbs on large gatherings and follows UNESCO's recognition of Kolkata's festival as part of the "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.’’ Artists began preparing for the festival months ago by making thousands of clay idols in Kumortuli, the oldest potters’ colony in Kolkata. The art district has mushroomed in an unplanned way in congested narrow alleys and lanes on the eastern bank of the...

Official data show that Turkey’s annual inflation reached a new 24-year high of 83.45% in September, pushing the cost of essential goods higher and further hitting households already facing high energy, food and housing costs

The British government has dropped plans to cut income tax for top earners

UK government drops key part of tax cuts package that sparked market turmoil, sent pound plunging

Parliament speaker warns that protests could destabilize the country.

Hurricane Orlene is at Category 3 strength as it heads for a collision with Mexico’s northwest Pacific coast between the tourist towns of Mazatlan and San Blas

Reformists who ran on fighting corruption appeared set to win an important race in Bosnia’s elections that could give them greater sway over the direction of the ethnically divided country

Former President da Silva got the most votes, but not enough to win outright.

Brazil election authority: Former President Lula da Silva tops 1st round; heads to runoff vs. incumbent Bolsonaro

With 90% of votes tallied, ex-President Lula da Silva leads slightly, but Brazil appears headed to run-off vote

King Charles III will welcome South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to the U.K. for three days of high-level talks next month, celebrating the first state visit of his reign with the leader of a Commonwealth member with close ties to the royal family